Quote from: CoinCube on December 02, 2019, 03:31:01 AM

Quote from: af_newbie on December 02, 2019, 12:34:32 AM

Join your local mensa society. Mensa offers reliable tests to prospective members.

Ah Mensa.

I was a member back in my undergraduate days.

We were really organized and even managed to get enough people to start an official Mensa club at the university. Thats harder than it sounds when the admissions test excludes 98% of the population. I was the treasurer which in reality meant I managed the pizza money and picked up the pizza for the monthly meetings which were interesting.

I still remember my feelings of smugness when I got in. I was a shallower person back then and felt IQ to be much more important than I do now. Not sure how its done today but back then the official test was a timed paper and pencil exam with a proctor and you got the results via mail a while later.

Good memories overall but I let my membership expire after I graduated. I understand the appeal but am no longer a fan of its exclusionary nature centered as it is around an inherent biological variance.

What we do with the gifts we are given is much more important than the exact abundance and quantity of what we are born with. With the benefit of age I am now much more interested in groups that focus on the former not the latter.

It doesn't seem like you are losing your Mensa qualities at all.

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Solomon in the Bible, had 700 wives, and 300 concubines. Most Bible scholars will tell you that the reason why he had so many women, was because he was marrying into ruling families of the various nations, to make peace with them, and wisely rule the world. But there is something else...

Ecclesiastes 7:27,28:

Quote from: https://biblehub.com/niv/ecclesiastes/7.htm

27Look, says the Teacher, this is what I have discovered:

Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things

28while I was still searching

but not finding

I found one upright man among a thousand,

but not one upright woman among them all.

This passage seems to bother women. They think that Solomon must have been some kind of masochistic woman-hater to write a proverb like this. And the idea of him having a thousand women seems to back it up.

What the women don't realize is that Solomon was talking about himself and his women, not about them or other women. But since they don't realize this, maybe Solomon WAS talking about women in general. Cheesy

I guess old af-newbie will never understand things like this, even if he is not a woman.

Cool